States Reorganisation

Independent India inherited a map drawn by conquest, treaty and accident, not by any principle at all — old British provinces sat next to former princely states of every size, with language and culture cutting across every boundary. Within a decade, the government had to redraw that map on a completely different basis: language.

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The linguistic reorganisation of Indian states, culminating in the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, redrew internal boundaries along language lines on the recommendation of the States Reorganisation Commission, after earlier agitation — including the death of Potti Sriramulu — had already forced the pace on Andhra specifically.

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